Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-09-18
...rrraroE AeRlcuLrURAL coLLEaE

w.rwrxeTos AeRicULTURAL coLIEeE-
A. bsfore shown in the columns Q
a. poer.InrK111eExcER, Washington
80 admitted into the Union ss
So. e entitled 70 the proceeds u %
- a 5000 acres Of land fer eacl
a.untof and Representative she vi
80 IN the hall Of Congress, for tn
svn,,oyt and maintenance Of an Agri
cnituraI and industrial College. W.
.rl in receipt Of an abstract Of the AZ
,5enItural College statutes, carefully
complied By Hon. Roger 8. Greene, sx
cblef Justice Of Washington Territory
sbOwing in detail the several laws bear.
lpe on the subject from Is62 down q
aate. The important features are;
1st. That Washington Is q State VII
identified to select not less than 90 .o0C
seres Of land within her borders and
III The same. the interest Of the pro
ed, % be used for " the endowment,
support and maintenance Of at least
one college, where the leading object
shaIl be, without excluding other sci
sptifc and classical studies and inelud-
Ing military tactics, such branches Of
learning as are related to agriculture
and mechanic arts"
ID. "Eo portion Of the fund or in
tsrest Is 10 be applied directly or indi-
reety, under any prstense whatever,
10 the purchase, erection, preservation
or repair Of any buildings or build
ing"
ID. "Ten per centum Of the amount
received may be expended for pur-
chase Of lands for sites for experimental
farms"
The times are ripe for energetic, i'm
mediate action looking TO the erection
Of q suitable building for this college
and for establishing an experimental
farm, as contemplated hy the law.
In any event the State (Territory)
must bear the whole expense OF the
erection Of the building. Washington,
without a debt, with light tax, with
. rapidly increasing population and
wealth, Is now abundantly able to erect
buildings that shall be credit 70 this
great commonwealth, without feeling
the increased tar Is burden any
more, or, in fact. not 20 much as when
clothed with Statehood powers. Be
fore building could now possibly be
Gnished the long looked for admission
win be contaminated, and we viii be
just that much advanced In point Of
time by taking action now.
This subject Ia one OF peculiar inter
sst 10 the farmers Of Washington, and
should engage their attention 20 see to
Il that action Is taksn by our LegislA-
.ure looking to the early erection Of
he building, and, when erected, that
The college shall be, what was intended
BY Congress, one where the leading
sheet shall be to teach such branches
Of learning as are related 70 agriculture
and the mechanic arts" and not be
he " tail end Of the kite" Of other
Institutions.
RArTLINa PLuMs.
John was gathering plums in the
back orchard. He had been told 10
= handle them like he would eggs"
Approaching the orchard, something
could be distinctly heard to rattle into
the pail. John, do you usually han
die eggs that wayf" OF course, he
sould make but one answer; he had
been careless and forgotten the warn
ng. Next day, while on the platform
Il Kent, dozen or more boxes Of APP
Pies were trucked into the car; the
rated sides Of the boxes exposed the
Ipples psainly; not one in sight that
IAd escaped a bruise. The next day
ollo wing two sacks Of apples were to
e seen in the car--yea, applesi in sacks.
Who would have thought that in the
nineteenth century, in Warrington
territory, In the richest county Of
he Territory sod that, too, where
here was a church, . schoolhouse,
hood TemplAr's hall. . postofaee' e.
'ress ONCE, telegraph ofnee, telephone
nee, and yet some one was 10 be
ound that would ship apples In saoksf
as the discovery II, Jet
nevertheless Il Is true. We have
society for the sncour-
cement Of fruit raising. Would 1t
,Ot be well 70 organise society 10 pre-
sut the destruction OF fruit IS well As
0 raise its II there is any one thing
a farul life that has {. led our patience
more thaR another, it Il that Of care
sss handling Of fruit, Warrington
an never become . greatfrult shipping
,Ountry, no matter how much fruit Is
-aised, until there isa reform, or rather
/ new depArtursin The matter Of hand
bag fruit
rae OUTSIDE Row.
For the ninstiesh and ninth time,
md more, We have labored with the
men Ito cultivate well out from the
row, and for that many times, unless
watched 10 the finish. has the labor
been lost. Twice this year the direc-
ton was given to make . good finish
next TO the fence on the onion patch,
bat neither time needed. Result: the
outside row has less than one-third as
many onions as that next 10 It, and, In
fact, might A. well not be there at all.
There was plenty Of room 10 both pillow
and hoe between this row and the fence,
yet instead Of onions there were weeds
to NOW down and ground TO waste.
Nothing shows more plainly than this
contrast the benefits aocruing frorn
persistent eultsyation-s fight with the
weeds while they are down and
abandon the contest. This outside
row. the "syesore Of the patch,
Is there, however. to supply the store